Archive for October, 2012

Hi there! The next German actor that I want to introduce to you is called Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo, better known as Daniel Brühl. Understandably you might wonder about the name…well, Daniel is the son of the German TV director Hanno Brühl and a Spanish teacher. He was born in 1978 in Barcelona/Spain.…

One of the most painful truths for foreign learners of German is that hardly any German speaks his or her mother language as textbooks propagate. To put it crudely, German is a kind of diglossia, which means that various spoken dialects coexist. These dialects can even be that different from the standard language that even…

We’ve created this handy little table of German numbers from 1 to 20 for students who are new to learning German. Included is a video with native speaker pronunciation – listen to it several times, and make sure to practice your own pronunciation by speaking the numbers out loud. In the absence of an instructor…

This is the continuation of my last post in which I told how to read the time when using mechanical clocks. As a matter of fact, it is often quite difficult to tell the exact time when using mechanical clocks or watches. This is especially true when the big hand of you watch is somewhere…

The constant reader of this blog might already know that I set myself to make a thoroughly series on Telling the Time in German. So far, I have explained how to cite full hours and the quarters of an hour (using mechanical clocks), and I explained why we tend to tell the time differently –…